The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from Sub-National Island Jurisdictions

ISBN-13: 9780415864787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

Godfrey Baldacchino; David Milne

Opis

This is the first collection to look critically at sub-national island jurisdictions. It examines their multi-level governance, international diplomacy, disaster management, offshoring strategies, economic development, and other expressions of negotiation and engagement with larger players, especially with metropolitan parent states.

Spis treści

1. Exploring Sub-National Island Jurisdictions 2. Island Jurisdictions in Comparative Constitutional Perspective 3. The Advantages of Political Affiliation: Dependent & Independent Small Island Profiles 4. In or Out: Sub-National Island Jurisdictions and the Antechamber of  Paradiplomacy. 5. Island Disaster Paradiplomacy in the Commonwealth. 6. Isolation as disability and resource: considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the ‘New Tasmania’ 7. Unitary State, Devolution, Autonomy, Secession: State Building and Nation Building in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea 8. Dependence and Autonomy in Sub-National Island Jurisdictions: The Case of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 9. The Rise and Fall of Sub-National Island Jurisdictions: The Cases of San Andrés y Providencia and the Galápagos Islands. 10. ‘We are not ready’: Colonialism or Autonomy in Tokelau

O autorze

Godfrey Baldacchino is an international authority on Island Studies, and the second Canada Research Chair at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.